Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2005 APS April Meeting
Saturday–Tuesday, April 16–19, 2005; Tampa, FL
Epitome
Apr 16 2005 8:30AM, Saturday
A0 
Plenary Talks I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E/F
Chair: Marvin Cohen, University of California-Berkeley
Apr 16 2005 10:45AM, Saturday
B1 
Neutrinos I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab
B2 
Observational Cosmology
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California-Berkeley
B3 
From Lattice QCD to Nuclear Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: T. Schaefer, North Carolina State University
B4 
To the Heart of the Matter: Frontiers in Nuclear Science
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
CSWP DNP
Chair: Gail McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
B5 
Teaching Special and General Relativity I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Richard Price, University of Texas-Brownsville
B6 
Space Weaponization and Missile Defense
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science
B7 
B Factory CP Violating Angles Gamma and Beta
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Carithers, University of California-Berkeley
B8 
Top Quark Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
B9 
Searches for Exotic Particles I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University
B10 
Gravitational Waves: Ligo Scientific Collaboration Results
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
B11 
Society of Physics Students I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
B12 
New Developments in Instrumentation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: E. Norbeck, University of Iowa
B13 
Mini-symposium: Heavy Flavor Production at RHIC
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Saskia Mioduszewski, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Apr 16 2005 1:30PM, Saturday
C1 
Neutrinos II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Hitoshi Murayama, University of California-Berkeley
C2 
B Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Jaros, SLAC
C3 
Medium Modifications of Hadronic Properties
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Steffen Strauch, George Washington University
C4 
Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Scott Hughes, MIT
C5 
Quantum Optics Through the Lens of History
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of CUNY
C6 
Perturbative Methods in Forefront Computations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: James Osborn, Boston University
C7 
Searches for Supersymmetry I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
C8 
Charm Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
C9 
Cosmology/Structure Formation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Rachel Bean, Princeton University
C10 
Focus Session: Classical and Mathematical Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Jim Isenberg, University of Oregon
C11 
Society of Physics Students II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
C12 
Nuclear Reactions and Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: G. Souliotis, Texas A&M University
C13 
Nuclear Theory I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Apr 16 2005 2:00PM, Saturday
D1 
Poster Session I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 16 2005 3:30PM, Saturday
E1 
Physics in Extra Dimensions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Andrew Cohen, Boston University
E2 
Hadronic Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
GHP
Chair: Ed Kinney, University of Colorado
E3 
Rare Isotope Physics and Facilities
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DPB DNP
Chair: Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratory
E4 
Cosmological Constraints on Theories of Gravity and Fundamental Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR DAP
Chair: Sean Carroll, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
E5 
Teaching Special and General Relativity II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
E6 
The Problem with Visas: The Impact on Universities, National Labs and Industry
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: Helen Quinn, SLAC
E7 
Electroweak Physics with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Laiho, Fermilab
E8 
B Factory Hadronic Decays and Vub
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Trischuk, University of Toronto
E9 
Neutrino Astronomy
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Steven Barwick, University of California-Irvine
E10 
Focus Session: Numerical Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, University of Texas, Brownsville
E11 
QCD
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Womersley, Fermilab
E12 
Instrumentation and Applications
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: E. J. Stephenson, IUCF
E13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I: Elliptic Flow and Azimuthal Correlations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona
Apr 16 2005 7:30PM, Saturday
F1 
Einstein's Legacy: What We Know and What We Don't Know
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Robert Wald, University of Chicago
Apr 17 2005 8:30AM, Sunday
H1 
Electroweak and QCD at the Tevatron
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
H2 
Mentoring in Physics Education
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP FEd DPF DAP
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University
H3 
Education and Exploration of the Universe
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Ramon Lopez, FI Tech
H4 
LHC Upgrades
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPB DPF
Chair: Michael Syphers, Fermilab
H5 
Baryogenesis and the Dark Matter Problem
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
COM
Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
H6 
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Terrorists
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists
H7 
B Factory Radiative Decays, X(3872), Direct BR
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Jaros, SLAC
H8 
Tevatron B Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Womersley, Fermilab
H9 
Hard X Rays and Gamma Rays
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Fiona Harrison, Caltech
H10 
Sources of Gravitational Radiation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Carlos Lousto, University of Texas, Brownsville
H11 
Plasma Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPP DAP
Chair: Melissa Douglas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H12 
Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP DPF
Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II: Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Ralf Rapp, Texas A&M University
Apr 17 2005 10:45AM, Sunday
J1 
Top Quarks
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University
J2 
New Results on the Structure of the Nucleon and Nucleus
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University
J3 
Dark Matter I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Thomas Shutt, Princeton University
J4 
Precision Tests of Gravity and Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GPMFC GGR
Chair: Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian
J5 
Einstein and Friends
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
J6 
Outreach in Support of Homeland Security
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FEd DNP
Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
J7 
Searches for Exotic Particles II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratories
J8 
Tevatron B Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Kaustabh Agashe
J9 
Charm Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
J10 
Numerical Relativity I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Beverly Berger, National Science Foundation
J11 
QCD with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
J12 
Solar and Reactor Neutrinos
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP DPF
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
J13 
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: C. Brune, Ohio University
Apr 17 2005 12:45PM, Sunday
K1 
String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF GGR
Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Apr 17 2005 1:15PM, Sunday
K2 
Giant Star Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Michael Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
K3 
Gamma Ray Bursts I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: James M. Ryan, University of New Hampshire
K4 
Nobel Prize, Einstein Prize, and Pipkin Award Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Chair: Helen Quinn, SLAC
K5 
Plasma Physics in the Laboratory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
DPP
Chair: Cris Barnes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
K6 
Scientific Integrity in Government
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
K7 
B Factory Physics Topics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Christian Bauer, Caltech
K8 
Neutrino Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Geralyn (Sam) Zeller, Columbia University
K9 
Dark Matter II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
K11 
History of Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Kenneth Ford, Retired
K12 
Electromagnetic Interactions I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Joerg Reinhold, Florida International University
K13 
Nuclear Structure
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: T. L. Khoo, Argonne National Laboratory
Apr 17 2005 2:00PM, Sunday
L1 
Poster Session II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 17 2005 2:30PM, Sunday
K10 
Physical Review and Physical Review Letters
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 8
Sponsor: 
APS
Apr 17 2005 3:15PM, Sunday
M1 
Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
M2 
Neutron Stars
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP DAP
Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University
M3 
Plasma Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
GPAP
M4 
International Collaboration on Physics Megaprojects: ILC and ITER
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Joseph D. Lykken, Fermilab
M5 
New Directions in Coincidence Studies of Atomic Few Body Systems (Followed by Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
GFB
Chair: Colm T. Whelan, Old Dominion University
M6 
The Globalization of Science: Constructing the Future
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: Marvin Cohen, University of California-Berkeley
M7 
Top Quark Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: David Rainwater, Rochester University
M8 
Neutrino Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Marc Sher, William and Mary
M9 
Gamma Ray Bursts II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Neil Gehrels, Goddard Space Flight Center
M10 
Numerical Relativity II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Chris Beetle, Florida Atlantic University
M11 
Cleo Bottomonia Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Natalie Roe, LBNL
M12 
Electromagnetic Interactions II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Brian Raue, Florida International University
M13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Marco van Leeuwen, LBNL
Apr 17 2005 5:15PM, Sunday
N3 
Award Presentations / Lilienfeld Prize Talk / APS Past President's Address
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
APS
Apr 17 2005 6:45PM, Sunday
P1 
FEd Open House and Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 10
Sponsor: 
FEd
Apr 17 2005 8:00PM, Sunday
N1 
Neutrinos, Particles and Underground Labs: Big Plans
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF DNP DPB
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Apr 18 2005 8:30AM, Monday
Q0 
Plenary Talks II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E/F
Chair: Charles Glashausser, Rutgers University
Apr 18 2005 10:45AM, Monday
R1 
Baryons: Birth and Death
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermilab
R2 
Nuclear Physics with High Energy Accelerators
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP DPB
Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory
R3 
Space Plasmas
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP GPAP
Chair: R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan
R4 
Gravitational Aspects of String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR DPF
Chair: Donald Marolf, University of California-Santa Barbara
R5 
Communicating Physics to Non-Physicists
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FGSA FEd
Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley
R6 
Few Body Collisions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
GFB
Chair: H.R.J. Walters, Queens University, Belfast
R7 
Top Quark Pair Production I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Estia Eichten, Fermilab
R8 
Higgs
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Florencia Canelli, UCLA
R9 
Cosmic Rays I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah
R10 
Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Brian O'Reilly, LIGO Livingston
R11 
Physics Education
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
R12 
Nuclear Reactions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: M. B. Tsang, Michigan State University
R13 
History of Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Roger H. Stuewer, University of Minnesota
Apr 18 2005 12:30PM, Monday
S1 
Poster Session III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 18 2005 1:30PM, Monday
T1 
DPF/DPB Prize Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DPB
Chair: Natalie Roe, LBNL
T2 
The Link between Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Bradley Sherrill
T3 
Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Stephen S. Holt, Olin College
T4 
Earth Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
T5 
Oh, the Places You Will Go, Interesting Careers in Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FGSA
Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley
T6 
Forum on Physics and Society and Forum on History of Physics Award Session (Followed by FPS Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS FHP
Chair: Joel Primack, University of California-Santa Cruz
T7 
Top Quark Pair Production II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Tim Tait, Argonne National Laboratory
T8 
Higgs Searches with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sharon Hagopian, Florida State University
T9 
Particles and Cosmology
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Konstantin Matchev, University of Florida
T10 
Focus Session: Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Seth Major, Hamilton College
T11 
Teacher Preparation and Public Outreach
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Hal Metcalf, SUNY @ Stony Brook
T12 
Weak Interactions and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Alexander Komives, DePauw University
T13 
Intermediate Energy Accelerators, Radiation Sources, and New Acceleration Methods
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Gerald Dugan, Cornell University
Apr 18 2005 3:30PM, Monday
U1 
B Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Patricia Burchat, Stanford University
U2 
DNP Prize Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Donald Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
U3 
Dark Energy I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories
U4 
Advanced Computational Methods and Results
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona
U5 
Plasma-Based Accelerators and Beams
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
DPB DPP
Chair: Bob Siemann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
U6 
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
U7 
Top Quark Physics III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Peter Wittich, University of Pennsylvania
U8 
Searches for Supersymmetry II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Carlos Wagner, Argonne/University of Chicago
U9 
Cosmic Rays II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Gary Zank, University of Riverside
U10 
Quantum Gravity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Steve Carlip, University of California, Davis
U11 
History of Physics III (Followed by FHP Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
U12 
Tevatron Techniques in B Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DPF
U13 
Precision Measurements and Non Linear Optics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
GPMFC
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
Apr 18 2005 5:10PM, Monday
V11 
FHP Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Apr 18 2005 5:18PM, Monday
V12 
GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
GPMFC
Apr 18 2005 5:30PM, Monday
V2 
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DNP
V3 
DAP Wine and Cheese Reception and Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
V10 
GGR Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Apr 19 2005 8:30AM, Tuesday
W0 
Plenary Talks III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Chair: Bill Carithers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Apr 19 2005 10:45AM, Tuesday
X1 
Physics Outreach
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Judy Jackson, Fermilab; Neil Calder, SLAC
X3 
Galactic Center
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Steven Boggs, University of California-Berkeley
X4 
Beam-Plasma Interactions and Applications
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPP DPB
Chair: Ronald Williams, Florida A&M
X7 
Particle Decays I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Alan Schwartz, University of Cincinnati
X8 
Demonstrations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salons I-III
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Ernie Malamud
X9 
Dark Energy II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Mark Phillips, Las Campanas Observatory
X10 
Tests of Relativity and Gravitation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Alan Kostelecky, University of Indiana
X11 
Precision Measurements of Nucleons and Nuclei
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Dave Mack, Jefferson National Laboratory
X12 
Hadronic Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University
X13 
The Rise of Megascience
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermilab
Apr 19 2005 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1 
New Physics at Colliders
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Carithers, University of California-Berkeley
Y3 
Extrasolar Planets
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California-Berkeley
Y4 
New Hadron Spectroscopies
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Y7 
Particle Decays II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Steve Nahn, Yale University
Y8 
Advances in Detector Instrumentation and Computing
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Y9 
New Ideas in Particle Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Y11 
Alchemy of the Heaviest Elements
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Walter Loveland, Oregon State University
Y12 
Mini-symposium B: Pentaquarks and Other Exotics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP GFB
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Apr 19 2005 3:30PM, Tuesday
Z7 
Advances in Field Theory and String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Z8 
Tevatron B Physics Topics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Z9 
New Ideas in Gravitation and Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Z12 
Mini-symposium B: Pentaquarks and Other Exotics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Z13 
Nuclear Theory II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Ruprecht Machleidt, University of Idaho
Apr 16 2005 8:30AM, Saturday
A0 
Plenary Talks I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E/F
Chair: Marvin Cohen, University of California-Berkeley
Apr 16 2005 10:45AM, Saturday
B1 
Neutrinos I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Boris Kayser, Fermilab
B2 
Observational Cosmology
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California-Berkeley
B3 
From Lattice QCD to Nuclear Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: T. Schaefer, North Carolina State University
B4 
To the Heart of the Matter: Frontiers in Nuclear Science
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
CSWP DNP
Chair: Gail McLaughlin, North Carolina State University
B5 
Teaching Special and General Relativity I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Richard Price, University of Texas-Brownsville
B6 
Space Weaponization and Missile Defense
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Benn Tannenbaum, American Association for the Advancement of Science
B7 
B Factory CP Violating Angles Gamma and Beta
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Carithers, University of California-Berkeley
B8 
Top Quark Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
B9 
Searches for Exotic Particles I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Janet Conrad, Columbia University
B10 
Gravitational Waves: Ligo Scientific Collaboration Results
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Gabriela Gonzalez, Louisiana State University
B11 
Society of Physics Students I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
B12 
New Developments in Instrumentation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: E. Norbeck, University of Iowa
B13 
Mini-symposium: Heavy Flavor Production at RHIC
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Saskia Mioduszewski, Brookhaven National Laboratory
Apr 16 2005 1:30PM, Saturday
C1 
Neutrinos II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Hitoshi Murayama, University of California-Berkeley
C2 
B Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Jaros, SLAC
C3 
Medium Modifications of Hadronic Properties
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Steffen Strauch, George Washington University
C4 
Space-Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Scott Hughes, MIT
C5 
Quantum Optics Through the Lens of History
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Daniel Greenberger, City College of CUNY
C6 
Perturbative Methods in Forefront Computations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: James Osborn, Boston University
C7 
Searches for Supersymmetry I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
C8 
Charm Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
C9 
Cosmology/Structure Formation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Rachel Bean, Princeton University
C10 
Focus Session: Classical and Mathematical Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Jim Isenberg, University of Oregon
C11 
Society of Physics Students II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Chair: Gary White, AIP/SPS
C12 
Nuclear Reactions and Rare Isotope Beams
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: G. Souliotis, Texas A&M University
C13 
Nuclear Theory I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: James Vary, Iowa State University
Apr 16 2005 2:00PM, Saturday
D1 
Poster Session I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 16 2005 3:30PM, Saturday
E1 
Physics in Extra Dimensions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Andrew Cohen, Boston University
E2 
Hadronic Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
GHP
Chair: Ed Kinney, University of Colorado
E3 
Rare Isotope Physics and Facilities
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DPB DNP
Chair: Jerry Nolen, Argonne National Laboratory
E4 
Cosmological Constraints on Theories of Gravity and Fundamental Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR DAP
Chair: Sean Carroll, Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago
E5 
Teaching Special and General Relativity II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Paula Heron, University of Washington
E6 
The Problem with Visas: The Impact on Universities, National Labs and Industry
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: Helen Quinn, SLAC
E7 
Electroweak Physics with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Laiho, Fermilab
E8 
B Factory Hadronic Decays and Vub
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Trischuk, University of Toronto
E9 
Neutrino Astronomy
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Steven Barwick, University of California-Irvine
E10 
Focus Session: Numerical Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Manuela Campanelli, University of Texas, Brownsville
E11 
QCD
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Womersley, Fermilab
E12 
Instrumentation and Applications
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: E. J. Stephenson, IUCF
E13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions I: Elliptic Flow and Azimuthal Correlations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Johann Rafelski, University of Arizona
Apr 16 2005 7:30PM, Saturday
F1 
Einstein's Legacy: What We Know and What We Don't Know
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Robert Wald, University of Chicago
Apr 17 2005 8:30AM, Sunday
H1 
Electroweak and QCD at the Tevatron
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sarah Eno, University of Maryland
H2 
Mentoring in Physics Education
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP FEd DPF DAP
Chair: Michael Thoennessen, Michigan State University
H3 
Education and Exploration of the Universe
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Ramon Lopez, FI Tech
H4 
LHC Upgrades
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPB DPF
Chair: Michael Syphers, Fermilab
H5 
Baryogenesis and the Dark Matter Problem
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
COM
Chair: Calvin Howell, Duke University
H6 
Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear Terrorists
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Henry Kelly, President, Federation of American Scientists
H7 
B Factory Radiative Decays, X(3872), Direct BR
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Jaros, SLAC
H8 
Tevatron B Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: John Womersley, Fermilab
H9 
Hard X Rays and Gamma Rays
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Fiona Harrison, Caltech
H10 
Sources of Gravitational Radiation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Carlos Lousto, University of Texas, Brownsville
H11 
Plasma Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPP DAP
Chair: Melissa Douglas, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H12 
Neutrinoless Double-Beta Decay and Neutrino Mass
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP DPF
Chair: Andrew Hime, Los Alamos National Laboratory
H13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions II: Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Ralf Rapp, Texas A&M University
Apr 17 2005 10:45AM, Sunday
J1 
Top Quarks
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Daniela Bortoletto, Purdue University
J2 
New Results on the Structure of the Nucleon and Nucleus
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Haiyan Gao, Duke University
J3 
Dark Matter I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Thomas Shutt, Princeton University
J4 
Precision Tests of Gravity and Relativity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GPMFC GGR
Chair: Ronald Walsworth, Harvard-Smithsonian
J5 
Einstein and Friends
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
J6 
Outreach in Support of Homeland Security
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FEd DNP
Chair: Peggy McMahan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
J7 
Searches for Exotic Particles II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sally Dawson, Brookhaven National Laboratories
J8 
Tevatron B Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Kaustabh Agashe
J9 
Charm Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
J10 
Numerical Relativity I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Beverly Berger, National Science Foundation
J11 
QCD with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
J12 
Solar and Reactor Neutrinos
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP DPF
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
J13 
Nuclear Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: C. Brune, Ohio University
Apr 17 2005 12:45PM, Sunday
K1 
String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF GGR
Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Apr 17 2005 1:15PM, Sunday
K2 
Giant Star Evolution and Nucleosynthesis
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Michael Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
K3 
Gamma Ray Bursts I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: James M. Ryan, University of New Hampshire
K4 
Nobel Prize, Einstein Prize, and Pipkin Award Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Chair: Helen Quinn, SLAC
K5 
Plasma Physics in the Laboratory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
DPP
Chair: Cris Barnes, Los Alamos National Laboratory
K6 
Scientific Integrity in Government
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Lawrence Krauss, Case Western Reserve University
K7 
B Factory Physics Topics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Christian Bauer, Caltech
K8 
Neutrino Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Geralyn (Sam) Zeller, Columbia University
K9 
Dark Matter II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Elena Aprile, Columbia University
K11 
History of Physics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Kenneth Ford, Retired
K12 
Electromagnetic Interactions I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Joerg Reinhold, Florida International University
K13 
Nuclear Structure
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: T. L. Khoo, Argonne National Laboratory
Apr 17 2005 2:00PM, Sunday
L1 
Poster Session II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 17 2005 2:30PM, Sunday
K10 
Physical Review and Physical Review Letters
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 8
Sponsor: 
APS
Apr 17 2005 3:15PM, Sunday
M1 
Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Marcela Carena, Fermilab
M2 
Neutron Stars
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP DAP
Chair: Hendrik Schatz, Michigan State University
M3 
Plasma Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
GPAP
M4 
International Collaboration on Physics Megaprojects: ILC and ITER
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
FPS
Chair: Joseph D. Lykken, Fermilab
M5 
New Directions in Coincidence Studies of Atomic Few Body Systems (Followed by Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
GFB
Chair: Colm T. Whelan, Old Dominion University
M6 
The Globalization of Science: Constructing the Future
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FIP
Chair: Marvin Cohen, University of California-Berkeley
M7 
Top Quark Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: David Rainwater, Rochester University
M8 
Neutrino Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF DNP
Chair: Marc Sher, William and Mary
M9 
Gamma Ray Bursts II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Neil Gehrels, Goddard Space Flight Center
M10 
Numerical Relativity II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Chris Beetle, Florida Atlantic University
M11 
Cleo Bottomonia Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Natalie Roe, LBNL
M12 
Electromagnetic Interactions II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Brian Raue, Florida International University
M13 
Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Marco van Leeuwen, LBNL
Apr 17 2005 5:15PM, Sunday
N3 
Award Presentations / Lilienfeld Prize Talk / APS Past President's Address
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
APS
Apr 17 2005 6:45PM, Sunday
P1 
FEd Open House and Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 10
Sponsor: 
FEd
Apr 17 2005 8:00PM, Sunday
N1 
Neutrinos, Particles and Underground Labs: Big Plans
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF DNP DPB
Chair: Hamish Robertson, University of Washington
Apr 18 2005 8:30AM, Monday
Q0 
Plenary Talks II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E/F
Chair: Charles Glashausser, Rutgers University
Apr 18 2005 10:45AM, Monday
R1 
Baryons: Birth and Death
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermilab
R2 
Nuclear Physics with High Energy Accelerators
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP DPB
Chair: Satoshi Ozaki, Brookhaven National Laboratory
R3 
Space Plasmas
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP GPAP
Chair: R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan
R4 
Gravitational Aspects of String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR DPF
Chair: Donald Marolf, University of California-Santa Barbara
R5 
Communicating Physics to Non-Physicists
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FGSA FEd
Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley
R6 
Few Body Collisions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
GFB
Chair: H.R.J. Walters, Queens University, Belfast
R7 
Top Quark Pair Production I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Estia Eichten, Fermilab
R8 
Higgs
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Florencia Canelli, UCLA
R9 
Cosmic Rays I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Pierre Sokolsky, University of Utah
R10 
Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Brian O'Reilly, LIGO Livingston
R11 
Physics Education
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Wolfgang Christian, Davidson College
R12 
Nuclear Reactions
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: M. B. Tsang, Michigan State University
R13 
History of Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Roger H. Stuewer, University of Minnesota
Apr 18 2005 12:30PM, Monday
S1 
Poster Session III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salon IV-V
Apr 18 2005 1:30PM, Monday
T1 
DPF/DPB Prize Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DPB
Chair: Natalie Roe, LBNL
T2 
The Link between Neutrinos and the Origin of the Elements
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Bradley Sherrill
T3 
Active Galactic Nuclei
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Stephen S. Holt, Olin College
T4 
Earth Based Gravitational Wave Detection
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Patrick Brady, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
T5 
Oh, the Places You Will Go, Interesting Careers in Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
FGSA
Chair: Lindley Winslow, University of California-Berkeley
T6 
Forum on Physics and Society and Forum on History of Physics Award Session (Followed by FPS Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS FHP
Chair: Joel Primack, University of California-Santa Cruz
T7 
Top Quark Pair Production II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Tim Tait, Argonne National Laboratory
T8 
Higgs Searches with W's and Z's
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Sharon Hagopian, Florida State University
T9 
Particles and Cosmology
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Konstantin Matchev, University of Florida
T10 
Focus Session: Non-Perturbative Quantum Gravity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Seth Major, Hamilton College
T11 
Teacher Preparation and Public Outreach
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Hal Metcalf, SUNY @ Stony Brook
T12 
Weak Interactions and Physics Beyond the Standard Model
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Alexander Komives, DePauw University
T13 
Intermediate Energy Accelerators, Radiation Sources, and New Acceleration Methods
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DPB
Chair: Gerald Dugan, Cornell University
Apr 18 2005 3:30PM, Monday
U1 
B Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Patricia Burchat, Stanford University
U2 
DNP Prize Session
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon F
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Donald Geesaman, Argonne National Laboratory
U3 
Dark Energy I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP DPF
Chair: Wendy Freedman, Carnegie Observatories
U4 
Advanced Computational Methods and Results
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DCOMP
Chair: Doug Toussaint, University of Arizona
U5 
Plasma-Based Accelerators and Beams
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon G/H
Sponsor: 
DPB DPP
Chair: Bob Siemann, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
U6 
FPS Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon I/J
Sponsor: 
FPS
U7 
Top Quark Physics III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Peter Wittich, University of Pennsylvania
U8 
Searches for Supersymmetry II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Carlos Wagner, Argonne/University of Chicago
U9 
Cosmic Rays II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Gary Zank, University of Riverside
U10 
Quantum Gravity
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Steve Carlip, University of California, Davis
U11 
History of Physics III (Followed by FHP Business Meeting)
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Robert H. Romer, Amherst College
U12 
Tevatron Techniques in B Physics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DPF
U13 
Precision Measurements and Non Linear Optics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
GPMFC
Chair: Carol Tanner, University of Notre Dame
Apr 18 2005 5:10PM, Monday
V11 
FHP Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
FHP
Apr 18 2005 5:18PM, Monday
V12 
GPMFC Business Meeting
Room: Marriot Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
GPMFC
Apr 18 2005 5:30PM, Monday
V2 
DNP Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DNP
V3 
DAP Wine and Cheese Reception and Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
V10 
GGR Business Meeting
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Apr 19 2005 8:30AM, Tuesday
W0 
Plenary Talks III
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Chair: Bill Carithers, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Apr 19 2005 10:45AM, Tuesday
X1 
Physics Outreach
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF DAP
Chair: Judy Jackson, Fermilab; Neil Calder, SLAC
X3 
Galactic Center
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Steven Boggs, University of California-Berkeley
X4 
Beam-Plasma Interactions and Applications
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPP DPB
Chair: Ronald Williams, Florida A&M
X7 
Particle Decays I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Alan Schwartz, University of Cincinnati
X8 
Demonstrations
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Florida Salons I-III
Sponsor: 
FEd
Chair: Ernie Malamud
X9 
Dark Energy II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Mark Phillips, Las Campanas Observatory
X10 
Tests of Relativity and Gravitation
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 6
Sponsor: 
GGR
Chair: Alan Kostelecky, University of Indiana
X11 
Precision Measurements of Nucleons and Nuclei
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Dave Mack, Jefferson National Laboratory
X12 
Hadronic Physics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Kenneth Hicks, Ohio University
X13 
The Rise of Megascience
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
FHP
Chair: Adrienne Kolb, Fermilab
Apr 19 2005 1:30PM, Tuesday
Y1 
New Physics at Colliders
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon E
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: William Carithers, University of California-Berkeley
Y3 
Extrasolar Planets
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon A/B
Sponsor: 
DAP
Chair: Bernard Sadoulet, University of California-Berkeley
Y4 
New Hadron Spectroscopies
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Grand Salon C/D
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Chris Quigg, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory
Y7 
Particle Decays II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Steve Nahn, Yale University
Y8 
Advances in Detector Instrumentation and Computing
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Y9 
New Ideas in Particle Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DPF
Chair: Joseph Lykken, Fermilab
Y11 
Alchemy of the Heaviest Elements
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 7
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Walter Loveland, Oregon State University
Y12 
Mini-symposium B: Pentaquarks and Other Exotics I
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Sponsor: 
DNP GFB
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Apr 19 2005 3:30PM, Tuesday
Z7 
Advances in Field Theory and String Theory
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 1
Sponsor: 
DPF
Z8 
Tevatron B Physics Topics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 4
Sponsor: 
DPF
Z9 
New Ideas in Gravitation and Astrophysics
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 5
Sponsor: 
DAP GGR
Chair: Jorge Pullin, Louisiana State University
Z12 
Mini-symposium B: Pentaquarks and Other Exotics II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 11
Chair: Simon Capstick, Florida State University
Z13 
Nuclear Theory II
Room: Marriott Tampa Waterside Room 12
Sponsor: 
DNP
Chair: Ruprecht Machleidt, University of Idaho
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